By: (AP) Floyd "Bucky" Walter, who covered the San Francisco Bay area sports scene for more than a half-century for the
San Francisco News,
News Call-Bulletin and
San Francisco Examiner, died at 85.
Walter, who retired in 1987, died Sunday at a nursing home in South San Francisco, where he had lived since being injured in a car accident in the mid-1990s.
"Bucky projected the image of an old-time sports writer, talking in jargon, with a cigar hanging from his mouth and his shirt spotted with food stains," said
San Francisco Chronicle sports editor Glenn Schwarz, who worked with Walter at the
Examiner for 18 years.
"But his writing was always fresh and lively. He was a joy to read."
The last 11 years of his career, Walter wrote the "Evening Muse," a five-day-a-week column for the
Examiner.
Walter is survived by daughter Carol, son Richard, brother Jim and four grandchildren.
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